Sean "Diddy" Combs has settled the lawsuit in which a Los Angeles man claimed the hip-hop mogul intimated he would "smack flames" out of the man's hindquarters, according to E! Online.

No word on how much threats of involuntary fire extrusion are worth these days - terms of settlement were not disclosed. The suit was set to go to trial in May.

The man, Gerard Rechnitzer, claimed that Combs beat and threatened him after Combs chatted up Rechnitzer's comely actress girlfriend, Sofia Sokolov, during Oscar weekend last year. He says Combs shoved him into a parked taxicab and pushed his girlfriend at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Rechnitzer alleged that Combs was upset because Sokolov refused to accompany Combs to a party.